Elijah is discouraged, even hopeless! This does not look like him. It does not even have the courage to rebel: "Take my life," he said to God. This God for whom he always fought, that he now regards as one who "takes life," he who kills ...
God will manifest instead as one who wakes, which calls up and who has for a long walk, long walk of life, walking toward God. go until the mysterious Elijah meeting of Horeb: where you can not go any further, because we reached the summit of the encounter with God.
And we? What is our road to where we going? What is our destiny, what motivates us in life?
When one starts a journey, we follow a route, it pursues a goal, a goal. In life, it's the same thing. If we want to live, not just survive, we need a high ideal. God is our true quest, our inner aspiration.
To his contemporaries gathered around him in the synagogue of Capernaum, Jesus says so bluntly: "I am God." But they know his earthly origin: Jesus, it is known: he is the son of Joseph, we know his father and mother! How could they admit that this man now before them "in the flesh" is "God"? Well yes, Jesus says I am "of God", but believe it is necessary that the Father inspires you, it blows on you. Faith is a gift from God. It can not be acquired after an argument, if it is sharp. "Nobody can come to me, says Jesus, if my Father who sent me draws him towards me. That is what Jesus tells us today in this Gospel passage. Now try to realize what he says.
This is a double movement: that of God to man and of man towards God.
The movement of God to man is personalized in Jesus. He defines himself as "the bread from heaven." Here is Jesus before us, with us, very human but filled with God's life and willing to share it.
The second movement involves our freedom. For it is this faith: complete trust that I set off to whoever comes to me, to feed on his Word. Everything comes from God. Everything is him. The Gospel is the heart of the knowledge of Christ compels us not to even stay in some shots.
Jesus thus presents himself to us as our food. He gives himself so that we might live. That is the very being of God is self-evident to rob the other RAM. And for us it's the same: live the life of God is to be able to give ourselves entirely to others.
God will manifest instead as one who wakes, which calls up and who has for a long walk, long walk of life, walking toward God. go until the mysterious Elijah meeting of Horeb: where you can not go any further, because we reached the summit of the encounter with God.
And we? What is our road to where we going? What is our destiny, what motivates us in life?
When one starts a journey, we follow a route, it pursues a goal, a goal. In life, it's the same thing. If we want to live, not just survive, we need a high ideal. God is our true quest, our inner aspiration.
To his contemporaries gathered around him in the synagogue of Capernaum, Jesus says so bluntly: "I am God." But they know his earthly origin: Jesus, it is known: he is the son of Joseph, we know his father and mother! How could they admit that this man now before them "in the flesh" is "God"? Well yes, Jesus says I am "of God", but believe it is necessary that the Father inspires you, it blows on you. Faith is a gift from God. It can not be acquired after an argument, if it is sharp. "Nobody can come to me, says Jesus, if my Father who sent me draws him towards me. That is what Jesus tells us today in this Gospel passage. Now try to realize what he says.
This is a double movement: that of God to man and of man towards God.
The movement of God to man is personalized in Jesus. He defines himself as "the bread from heaven." Here is Jesus before us, with us, very human but filled with God's life and willing to share it.
The second movement involves our freedom. For it is this faith: complete trust that I set off to whoever comes to me, to feed on his Word. Everything comes from God. Everything is him. The Gospel is the heart of the knowledge of Christ compels us not to even stay in some shots.
Jesus thus presents himself to us as our food. He gives himself so that we might live. That is the very being of God is self-evident to rob the other RAM. And for us it's the same: live the life of God is to be able to give ourselves entirely to others.
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